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Re: Our first climb and dump of the season!

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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence View Post
How long do you think (once your drivers are practiced and you have the routine down) to go from lined up to climbed to the top and frisbees scored?
That is the big question for us as well. Tonight, we saw a climb taking about 40 seconds to the top. There are 2 seconds of "pause" built in at each level so we could check the hooks and stop if needed (4 seconds total), plus another 5-10 seconds we should be able to salvage with PID tuning (up to 9-14 seconds), and another 2 seconds per level once we get the limit switch issue fixed (13-18 seconds). The dump should take 1-2 seconds, once we get the chain jumping issue fixed.

We'll be happy with 30 seconds from floor to 50 points, but we're hoping for 20 We're going to double the power we have on the winch (we had 1 Mini-CIM, we're adding a second), which should help as well... we were really taxing the Mini-CIM to climb that high, and after 2 hours straight of climbing it was hot enough to fry an egg!
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